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'No, no, said FORWARD!' Mmniii'anpumwwi; .. wwp.im .,.mn ui,iinn 1 1 t Washington . Mern-gb-roim(l ? Lorenzen's plan avoids one big hole jn early Freeman proposal In recent days two newspapers have carried accounts of efforts be ing made to come up with some sort of acceptable support program for Wheat for the 1965 crop. The turn down, by growers all over the na tion, of the Kennedy administra tion's program for the 1964 crop has riot ended the wheat question, of that you can be sure. One of the newspapers was the Wall Street Journal, which discussed efforts be ing made by the Department of Ag riculture to work its way out of the mess it is in. The other, the East Oregonian at Pendleton, described a new plan being offered by a wheat grower in that area. ' The Wall Street Journal con firmed this newspaper's remark of several months ago, that the Ken nedy administration would riot let the matter stop with the "no" vote by the nation's wheat growers. A national election comes up next year. The administration is well aware of it. Various means are under discussion to provide a new pro gram. A large part of the change In attitude In Washington, the Journal reports, is due to the con clusion wheat prices will not drop as far or as fast as originally had been expected. The plan discussed around Pendleton is the brainchild of Leo nard Lorenzen, a wheat farmer of that area, who has assumed a num ber of community duties over the years. Lorenzen's plan has some thing in common with those under consideration in Washington. Basically, it would provide a market ing allotment, upon a production, rather than acreage basis. Over allotment wheat would be stored at the farmer's expense; such wheat would sell on the open" market at a supply-and-demand price. It could be used for livestock feed. The wheat grower would get a parity price support on his marketing allotment. Lorenzen's plan would not al low wheat farmers participating in the program to receive soil bank funds, or conservation program funds. He assumes, and he is prob ably right, that unsuitable lands would go Into grass. The Lorenzen plan has several features worthy of comment. For one thing, it would cut back dras tically on the heavy costs of storing surpluses. For another, it would cut back on the costs of so-called con servation programs, which often have been in the past just another excuse for paying subsidies. Both features should appeal to those of .us who do not raise wheat, and the members of Congress from areas in which wheat is not grown. The most important thing in the plan, however, is the combina tion of the bushel allotment and the free acreage, or the removal of controls on production. Many thoughtful people know that acre age allotments have not worked. But many thoughtful people, too, realize the complete unfairness of limiting total production allot ment and over-allotment on a bushel basis. American agriculture's largest problem has been over-production. That problem has been created by the success of the American farmer, or at least what would be called success in other lines of endeavor. The farmer has produced more than has been needed, in spite of at tempts to control production, in spite of a shrinking farm population, and In spite of weather and bugs. Production records have been made in spite of thousands of acres of farm land being taken out of pro duction for everything from super markets to cemeteries, from high ways to the soil bank. The American farmer his kept his head above water only because he was able to produce mere and better crops from fewer acres, with less help. The original Freeman plan, - and some others proposed, would have taken that opportunity away" from him. And it would have meant the ruination of American agriculture. That is why Lorenzen's plan seems to be more acceptable than some of the earlier ones proposed. More beauty spoffing Every few years, perhaps it's in the summer when ideas seem to come a little harder, a few editorial writers around Oregon get a friend ly argument started about natural beauty spots in the state. One man nominates one place, another argues for a different place. Little blood is shed, and quite a few readers get some Ideas for one or two-day sum mer trips. It's started again this year. The editor of the East Oregonian at Pendleton has nominated the stretch of highway between Scottsburg and Reedsport, down the Umpqua river. ATfellow on the Eugene Register Guard wants to add the entire cir culation area of his newspaper. r The Pendleton editor has a good nomination. We have (in no particular order) some others: The sand dunes in the Reeds port area; Crater lake; the entire Oregon coast, excreting for the 20 Miracle Miles; Wallowa county, in Its entirety; the rugged country south of Burns; the Deschutes and John Day river canyons; the Colum bia Gorge; the McKenzie highway; the summit of the Cascades; the Grande Ronde Valley; the view from Pilot Butte or Lava Butte after an afternoon thunderstorm; the Hood River valley in blossom time; the rugged breaks of the Malheur; the upper John Day valley in the early morning; the west side of the Wil lamette valley on a sunny day in the spring; the rhododendrons on the slopes of Mt. Hood. If a person can have seen all these things and it's not too hard or too expensive an undertaking he's had more than his share of natural beauty. Quotable quotes It would seem that everything we say Is wrong. Everything we state is false. Everything we sug gest is of no interest. Everything we propose is unacceptable. We are utterly wrong in every detail; they are absolutely right. Alberto Franco Nogucira, Portugese foreign minister, discussing In the Security Council his nation's dispute with the African nations over Portugese territories. JFK describes his rights plans to Senate members By Draw Pearson WASHINGTON On the sec ond floor of the White House, looking out over the southwest lawn and Caroline's chute-the-chutes, is an informal library with magazines on a table and easy chairs where the President lounges after hours. There, toward the end of the day last week, a dozen senators sipped gin and tonic, munched on hors d'oeuvres, and listened to a highly illuminating report from the President on three important problems: tax reduction, civil rights, and the test ban treaty, in that order. The President was relaxed and ' appeared in excellent health. He emphasized that there must be tax reduction in order to get the economy moving again, and he urged that the Congress pass his tax proposals this year. Kennedy described his civil rights legislation as moderate and if enacted into law would not hurt anyone, but on the other hand would be readily accepted by those affected and would rectify a long-time injustice. The group included several Southern senators John Sten nis. Miss., Everett Jordan, N.C., and Spessard Holland, Fla., but only Holland spoke out in dis sent. Even he, however, was not 'in a filibustering mood. Brink of War It was in regard to the test ban agreement that tho President spoke most eloquently, but with careful choice of words. He described the treaty as mod erate, but an important step to ward better understanding which he felt would be to the advant age of the United States, yet did not bind us irrevocably. If anoth er country should start testing, the parties to this agreement were released. Should China get the atomic bomb, he said, the entire com plexion of the international situa tion would be altered. In emphasizing the importance of making a start toward easing world tensions, Kennedy said that three times in the past two years serious confrontations between the United States and Russia could have erupted into nuclear war. The three crises he identi fied as over Berlin, Laos, and Cuba. Kennedy said he felt that Khru shchev was making test-ban con cessions because he, Khrushchev, was concerned about these ten sions. "They have sobered the world," he said. In the 1960s, he said, we were apprehensive over Russia. In the 1970s we will face the menace of China. JFK's Cabinet It will be a long time before the Post Office sees another postmaster general like Ed Day a man of brilliant mind, high moral principles, resourceful, and with a contagious personality. He resigned primarily for eco nomic reasons the pinch of living on a tight cabinet salary, after drawing down $75,000 in pri vate life. Jim Farley, the famed PMG under FDR, couldn't do it either, rolled up a debt of $100, 000. But Ed Day, like Abe Ribi coff, who resigned last year as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, also ran up against the fact he had to deal with young whippersnappers at the White House, not the President. Kenne dy seldom holds cabinet meetings, and most of the cabinet aside from Secretary of State Rusk, Secretary of Defense McNamara, and Secretary of the Treasury Dillon cannot get in to see him. Another cabinet member who is on the verge of resignation for the same reason is Luther Hodges, Secretary of Commerce. Hodges is a highly respected Southern . liberal, businessman, and ex-governor who pioneered civil rights in North Carolina far ahead of anyone else. He has done an excellent, though unpublicized job of running the Commerce De partment, but seldom sees his chief in the White House. He'll retire when the time is ripe. Resignation of Day offers Negro cabinet opportunity ground nor insensible to the atti tude the Senate might take. There was suspicion, thercforo, that the announcement that Daw son had been tendered and had rejected the job was a political device and that no real proposal had been made to Dawson. Prepostd New Department Thereafter Kennedy proposed that Congress establish a new cabinet department of urban af fairs. He said he would name a Negro to head the department. The Republicans almost unani mously cried "foul." They were joined by some Democrats from the South. This was a political play, these dissenters maintained, to make it impossible for a non Southern member of Congress to vote against setting up the new department lest he be accused of anti - Negro bias; of voting against a Negro in the cabinet. However that may have been, Congress did not authorize the new department. But President Kennedy undoubtedly took a sub stantial political profit among Negro voters. Now comes a vacancy In the Kennedy cabinet, a cabinet job said to have once been offered to and rejected by a Negro. If the President's anxiety for a Negro in the cabinet has been for real all along, here is a can't miss opportunity. Or. maybe, the President will decide to give an other refusal to Chicago's Rep. Dawson. By Lyla C. Wilton UPI Staff Writer The resignation of Postmaster General J. Edward Day offers President Kennedy another op portunity to indulge his anxiety for a Negro in the cabinet. Ken nedy's first choice for that cabi net post may have been a Ne gro. During the 1960 presidential campaign, the Republicans play ed politics in stumblebum fashion with the idea of a Negro cabinet member. There was no need for candidate Kennedy to match that maneuver precisely during his presidential campaign. The Dem ocratic platform and his own shrewd plays for Negro votes were ample to offset Republican maneuvers. Once elected, however, Presi dent Kennedy had Negro prob lems. He and his platform had promised guaranteed some instant civil rights. It immediate ly became obvious that the entire Kennedy legislative program probably would be scuttled if the new President proposed ' broad gauge civil rights legislation to the newly elected Congress. The decision was to put off the issue. Negroes Were Pleated Negroes were pleased by Ken nedy's selection of Negroes for well-paid federal jobs. They were equally pleased by constant evi dence of the President's concern for Negro problems. Thus it was that the President-elect appeared on the porch of his Georgetown home in December, 1960, with Rep. William Dawson, a Chicago Democrat and a Negro. The President - elect told assembled newsmen and Dawson agreed that the congressman had been offered and had refused the postmaster general's post. Here was another evidence of KeniuJys interest and confi dence in Negros but was It? The question arose: Was the offer to Dawson for real? The Chicago Daily News printed an editorial under the caption: "We Can't Believe It Daw son's record should keep him out of the cabinet." The News pictured Dawson as the absolute political boss in Chi cago of an empire of corruption, fraud and crime. If so. the nom ination of Dawson would have in vited severe scrutiny and. prob ably, rejection by the U.S. Sen ate. Kennedy Svarcely could have been Ignorant of Dawson's back t, . mni, fa - ,i .. a Barb: No wonder college grads think they're pretty hot going around with all those degrees. Take two can openers on picnic one is sure to breakl To avoid black and blue eyes, be careful whom they hit when when dropping insulting remarks. Shock restored Texas man's voice. Divorce does the same thing for soma men. People of Skopje learn first hand about work of American Air Force's 'Samaritans with wings' By Wellington Long UPI Staff Writer WIESBADEN, Germany tUPI) Some Europeans call the U. S. Air Force in Europe (USAFE) "Samaritans with wings" because of the help it brings whenever disaster strikes in its area of op eration. The people of Skopje, Yugosla via, learned this week just how true that description is, as more than a score of other nations al ready know. USAFE's main job in Europe is defense, and with today's nu clear weapons, it has the capa bility of inflicting destruction more awesome than any of the 26 disasters it has flown aid to. But this destructive power is something USAFE hopes will nev er be needed. Its relief work is on constant call. The USAFE specialties are flood and earthquake relief, which usually require large quan tities of aid material quickly, and often need it in accessible places. Helped 21 Countries Since USAFE started keeping track of its emergency aid op erations in January, 1953, it has been involved in helping the vic tims of 26 disasters in 21 coun tries, and scores of other events less serious. The backbone of the disaster re lief operation is the 322nd Air Division, functioning from Ev rreux, France. Its pot-bellied C130 "Hercules" aircraft are familiar wherever disaster strikes. The turbo-prop planes have helped relieve the distress of floods in Britain, Hol land, Syria, Iraq, Germany, Iran, Jordan, Libya, Kenya, Somali land, and Morroco, and of earth quakes in Turkey, Greece, Al geria, Morocco and Iran. USAFE was there helping the victims of the Agadir, Morocco, earthquake which took 12,000 lives in 1960 and the earthquake in Iran which took 10,000 lives in 1962. It was at the Hamburg, Germany, flood in 1962 and Hol land in 1953 when the angry sea destroyed the dikes. Helped Many Victims It has helped the victims of snow storms in Italy and Sicily, of a collapsed dam in France, avalanches in Austria, cyclones in Pakistan, and fire in Yemen. USAFE usually flies and some times air drops emergency sup plies to a stricken area a few hours after the disaster. Planes often return with refugees. Some times, as this week, USAFE flies in a whole army field hospital, with all its staff and trucks. ' Among the more spectacular efforts, USAFE also airlifts medi cines to prevent epidemics, and sprays wide areas against lo custs. The men of USFE are anxious to go when the SOS comes in. The Bulletin Tuesday, July 30, 1963 An Independent Newspaper Robert W. Chandler, Editor Glenn Cushman, Gen. Manager Jack McDermott, Adv. Manager Phil F. Brogan, Associate Editor Lou W. Meyers, Ore. Manager Loren E. Dyer, Mech. Sup't. William A. Yates, Managing Ed. Bfuarad u Second Class Matter, .taniarr S. 1S1T. el uie Pit Ofnca at Herd, ucesvn. un.in Act of March X. 1ST. f-uhtlnJ aailr txctpl Sunday and certain aulliuoe by Tht betid Bulletin. Inc. British shifting their position on nuclear force By K.C. Thaler UPI Staff Writer LONDON (UPI) Britain's Con servative government is quietly switching around to President Kennedy's plan for a mixed-manned, Polaris - equipped nuclear surface force. The shift is prompted by a re vised appraisal of the internation al situation and Germany's future role in the alliance. British leaders who have been critical of Kennedy's multi-national force project now feel the idea may prove the best way of securing West Germany's adher-" ence to the Western Alliance. They are also coming around hesitantly to Kennedy's view that the project of a mixed -manned nuclear NATO force may be the best way of stopping the spread of nuclear weapons. Maintains Coal Attitude The government intends for the time being to maintain publicly Its cool attitude to the project, largely for inner-political reasons and to silence the Laborite oppo sition before an election. But the Conservative govern ment, if re-elected, will be in clined to take another look at the mixed-manned force project with a view to adopting it. British reaction so far has been negative to the plan for both po litcal and technical reasons. Some of Britain's top experts have said the idea is not prac tical and that running a nuclear force with mixed crews would lead to friction and trouble. They also have argued that sur face ships would be too exposed to enemy attacks and that at any rate the financing of the force would be too costly. Labor Party Opposed The Laborite opposition, which is divided on the advisability of an independent British nuclear de terrent altogether, is strongly op posed to a mixed manned force which would give Germany a fin ger on the nuclear trigger. It rules out British participation in When Kennedy and Prime Min ister Harold Macmillan met here earlier this month they agreed that "various possible ways" should be discussed with the al lies on closer association of NATO members with the nuclear deterrent. The official communi que specifically stated that dis cussions in the mixed manned force would be "without preju dice to the question of British participation." Macmillan at the time insisted on the insertion of this clause, presumably to guard against La borite insinuation that he had made any secret commitment to Kennedy. The official British line will to all appearances continue to re main reserved or even critical of the profect. but the present gov ernment's thinking is changing. ORDER ISUED WASHINGTON (UPI1 The Fed eral Trade Commission has tenta tively ordered Fred Meyer. Inc., Portland. Ore., to cease what the agency charged was the inducing ot discriminatory price conces sions and production allowances from suppliers. The FTC charged in its order that the IS - store supermarket chain received money or special services from certain suppliers to promote their products rather than those of competitors. Fred Meyer has 20 days in which to answer the charge. y. Nickel's : Worth The Skopje earthquake struck Friday morning. As soon as the extent of the disaster became apparent, USAFE figured out what it would and ought to do to best help, and informed the Yu goslav government this was what the Americans could do if Bel grade asked for it. Pilots Were Ready The American planes gathered at Ramstein, West Germany, one of the major nuclear bases, and loaded the army field hospital. Pilots began straining at the leash. The price sequence Is uncer tain, but at one point, the lead plane took off before diplomatic clearance for the flight over Yu goslavia had been given. Remem bering the time several years ago when nervous Yugoslav gun ners knocked an American Air Force plane out of the sky, con trol officers ' called this plane back, and told him to land until things were straightened out. The planes, when they finally got the go-ahead, flew directly to Belgrade, where they unloaded. The mercy convoy immediately drove south to the disaster area. The U.S. Army trucks bearing gleaming white stars were es corted by Yugoslav military po lice wearing shiny red stars. As the Americans drove past, Yugoslavs applauded and yelled "Ziveli Amerikanci" (Long Live the Americans). Other pens . . . "When men differ In opinion, both sides ought equally to have the advantage of being heard by the public." Benjamin Franklin. Recreation program pleasing to visitor To the Editor: Recently it was our pleasure to spend two weeks in Bend. It was a combination business-vacation trip. As my husband was gone during the day, I was inter ested in keeping three lively chil dren busy and happy in a motel. The Bend Summer Recreation program was my answer and I wish to thank Mrs. Williams and her staff at the Allen School for providing many happy hours. The children attended a carnival at Harmon Flayfield, did folk danc ing, played organized games, had crafts and story hours. All this combined with swimming at your marvelous municipal pool made us all say "We want to come back to Bend." Mrs. Peter W. Falconer Cupertino, Calif., July 24, 1963 ike closes P & C Tool Co. MILWAUK1E (UPD-Local 1432 of the International Association of Machinists struck and closed the P 4 C Tool Co. here Monday. Pickets appeared at the firm again today. The strike came after contract negotiations broke down last week. No negotiations were scheduled. The union's two-year contract expired July 1. The local repre sents 76 of the company's 105 em ployes. The other employes do not belong to a union. Thomas W. Stewart, business agent for the local, said the union seeks a wage increase of 20 cents an hour during two years. B. H. McClain, general manager for the company, said the firm offered six to eight cents an hour increases for each year of a two year contract. Employes now get an average of $2.43 per hour. The raiders We raise raspberries. This year when they began to ripen we not ed the absence of birds who us ually anticipate that blessed event by pecking the berries at first redness. And we thought, in our human conceit, that perhaps the birds would fail to notice. But before the berries had rip ened to proper sweetness the ro bins came by one morning and stayed despite the unfriendly atti tude of a sparrow hawk that drove them to the protection of a tree several times. Other birds joined them until a vine ripened berry is hard to find. The job of picking berries is not a simple one for a robin. They find the canes unable to support their weight and must flutter like a humming bird while pecking a berry. A robin is not designed for such fluttering and they become fatigued and must rest on the ground between berries. One who has been listening to nutritionists would think that a robin would tire of a diet of ber ries all day long and would long for a nice succulent worm to put some strength into the beating wings. But it is not apparent Ro bins seem to take berries when berries are available and worms when tho ground is moist enough to drive them to the top. There is no concern for a balanced ration. If we understood robin talk which seems to be a fairly com plete language we would en deavor to tell them about nutition or what the experts say about nutrition. But we doubt if it would deter them from incessant berry picking. It is only the rich and overfed who can afford to talk about their food; the poor take it as it comes. And the rich die from too much food and the poor from too little. And one is as painful as the other. (Sherman County Journal, Moro, Oregon.) NAMES DELEGATE WASHINGTON (UPI) - Joseph D. Tydings, U.S. attorney for the district of Maryland, will be the Justice Department's delegate to the 1963 general assembly of In terpol, the International Police Organization. Atty. Gen. Robert F. 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